Multiplex ice-cream packing and shipping can.



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IIIULTIPLEX ICE. CREAM PACKING AND SHIPPING CAN.

(Application filed July 14, 1899.)

(No Model.)

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U ITE STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SEBASTIAN GOLDSMITH, OF WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

MULTIPLEX lC E-CREAM PACKING AND SHIPPING CAN.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 663,076, dated. December 4, 1900. Application filed July 14, 1899. Serial No. 723,832. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SEBASTIAN GOLDSMITH, a citizen of the United States, residing at IVashington, in the District of Columbia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Multiplex Ice-Cream Packing and Shipping Cans; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will onable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to improvements in packing and shipping cans, the object being to provide novel means or devices for packing and shippingice-creams, sherbets, and the ike. I

Heretofore in filling an order for several flavors of cream or the like the confectioner has been compelled to either furnish the same in individual cans separately packed with ice in tubs or he has furnished the variflavored creams in a single can and depended on the low temperature produced by the large quantity of ice employed to prevent the same from melting and the flavors thus commingling. Thus the confectioner works at a disadvantage in the use of both these methods. The present invention overcomes these disadvantages by providing what is termed a multi plex packing and shipping can-that is, a number of cans whose arrangement and relation to each other are such that an integral shipping medium is obtained.

The invention thus consists in the improved packing and shipping can and in the novel arrangement and combination of the parts of the same, as hereinafter described, shown in the drawings, and definitely set forth in the claim hereto appended.

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1 is a 'side view of a multiplex circular packing and shipping can in one of the forms my invention may assume, the outer shell being shown broken to partially disclose two of four removable segmental compartments employed in this design. Fig. 2 is a perspective View of one of the cans or compartments of the form shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a top plan view of the multiplex can with the cover removed. Fig. 4c is a plan view of a modification employing three compartments or individual cans only. Fig. 5 is a plan view of a circular can having a single and stationary partition, this style being designed for smaller quantities of ice-cream or the like; and Fig. 6 is a similar view of a further modification, the exterior shell being shown as square to receive four corresponding compartments or cans.

Reference being had to thedrawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, A, Fig. l, designates an outer cylindrical shell, such as usually employed to receive the cream, preferably made of sheet metal. Within said shell four sector-like or segmental'cans B are adapted to be snugly received, each of which is provided with anysuitable means, such as hinged rings a, by which it may be lifted from the shell. A single cover C, fitting over the outer shell, serves in like capacity for the cans B. The shell A is designed to be received in the ice-tub Hand to be packed with ice I in the usual manner. It will thus be seen that four different flavors can be furnished in one tub, with a manifest saving in time, labor, space, and ice. This style of packing-can is designed for quantities of twenty quarts and up.

In the construction shown in the plan view Fig. 4 I employ three compartments or cans D, which are coincident in having their outer portions curved to be snugly received in the shell A and their straight edges touching each other and provided with rings a to facilitate the removal of the cans. This is also adapted for large quantities of cream.

In Fig. 5 I have shown a single can A, which is to be placed directly in the ice. A

stationary partition E divides this can into two sections F, so that two dilferent flavors can be served simultaneously. This style is more suitable for small quantities, as from four to twenty quarts.

In Fig. 6 I have shown the outer shell A as being square and adapted to contain four correspondingly-forlned holdersG, provided with rings a, as shown. This construction is also suited to large quantities, as twenty quarts and up. I

In all these modified forms but one cover C is employed in each, so that several flavors can be served very readily,.thus permitting little access to the cream of the surrounding atmosphere, which is in contradistinction to the methods in common use, where it is necessary to go about from tub to tub and open each can separately. This Where the cans are kept in a dark and damp cellar, as'is the common case, is an extremely dangerous proceeding.

The fact that several kinds of cream and the like can be furnished in one tub with the ordinary quantity of ice that would necessarily have to be employed by a confectioner at present for each separate flavor is another important economy. I therefore need not elaborate upon the advantages of my multiplex packing and shipping can, as they are apparent to all familiar with the confectioners art.

Having thus described my invention, I

claim A device of the class described comprising the tub or ice-receiver, the interlying shell or i the shell or receptacle and extending from the center thereof to the periphery of the same and having their upper edges flush with the upper edges of the said shell or receptacle,

and a common closure fitting against the upper edges of the individual cans and the shell or receptacle and adapted When removed .to

expose the contents of all of the individual cans, said shell or' receptacle forming a jacket to protect the individual cans and being ca- SEBASTIAN GOLDSMITH.

Witnessesi JAS. A. RICHMOND, W, O. HILL, 

